Hancock's Half Hour. Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock). Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation.

Hancock's Half Hour

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Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney Balmoral James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock). Image credit: Bob Collins & National Portrait Gallery.

Hancock's Half Hour

Tony Hancock stars in Galton & Simpson's comic masterpiece, with his delusions of grandeur and acquaintances at the root of his every downfall

AKA:
Hancock; Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes
Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
1956 - 1961  (BBC One)
Episodes:
63 (7 series)
Starring:
Tony Hancock, Sid James
Writers:
Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation

Welcome to 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, residence of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock - a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition.

Our Review: Hancock's Half Hour really created what we now recognise as a sitcom. In both its original radio, and then television, incarnations, it paved the way for all shows since, and remains unsurpassed in many respects. A truly great sitcom by any reasonable definition; we really can't praise it enough.